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One of the reasons models like this feel universal is because they have a lot of wiggle room in how you interpret what they mean. So some movies fit them very
by swatcoder 4y ago
One of the reasons models like this feel universal is because they have a lot of wiggle room in how you interpret what they mean.
So some movies fit them very plainly and other movies fit them only after somebody pulls a “well, actually” and makes an unobvious interpretation of who the story was really about, or what they wanted, or where they started, or where they ended.
The easiest starting points to look for the “hard fits” are in any tragedy (which aren’t very popular in the US recently), any movie that’s in the middle of a trilogy, and some absurdist/surrealist comedies that happened to win success on humor or novelty rather than structure.
But someone committed to the universality of this model can always make a case that those movies fit too. It’s just a more strained argument than in some others.
- rtpg 4y agoIt's kind of funny because we already have a great storytelling model that does fit almost all of these (including lots of the more absurdist stuff), that is in 8-ish points: the 3-act structure!
- number6 4y agoAct 1 is usually Point 1 - 3; Act 3 is 5 - You can Map the 3 Act structure to the 8 Points. Act 1: 1-3; Act 2: 4-6; Act 3: 7 - 8.
- rtpg 4y agoI think that that's saying that these 8 points are an instance of the 3 act structure but loads of stories match the 3 act structure without matching this.